Naomi Graychase

On May 19th, citizens and leaders in the City of Boston will gather in a public forum at the Museum of Science to discuss ways to bring free, public Wi-Fi to Boston. The Wi-Fi Summit, which is free and open to the public, was the outgrowth of an order Boston City Councilor John Tobin filed […]

OnAir Entertainment, a new provider of proprietary media services to Wi-Fi hotspots, hotel IP networks and MDUs, has teamed up with Norfolk, Va.-based TotalVid to offer TotalVid’s entire 1,000-title library of special-interest movies to customers at OnAir’s hotspots. OnAir, which is based in Sunnyvale, Calif., has developed a proprietary network appliance (the DVS0-100) that caches […]

The city of Syracuse, N.Y. is in the second of a three-phase plan to roll out a wired and wireless broadband network serving all 41 of the public school buildings within its city limits. The $80 million project, which will include 18,000 network drops and up to 300 Cisco Access Points, will bring high-speed Internet […]

There’s a saying in politics: “As Maine goes, so goes the nation.” It began in the thirties, when Maine’s general election took place in September instead of in November. Nowadays, Maine votes with everyone else on the first Tuesday in November, but the state still leads the way in some areas, including putting technology into […]

In an attempt to determine the impact of high-definition content delivery on education and home life in America, wireless networking equipment manufacturer Proxim is providing the wireless backbone for a research project being conducted by Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Muncie—dubbed “Middletown, U.S.A.” in a groundbreaking sociological study published in 1924—is generally considered to […]

Wish you had a digital home of the future, complete with wireless networking and home controls? Playa Vista, Calif., may be the place to be. For citizens of Los Angeles, the quest for great housing is like the search for the holy grail — only worse, because the grail doesn’t require a realtor. Owning an […]

If Wi-Fi hotspot provider Diamond I has its way, soon visitors to the country’s hottest gaming spots will be able to take their money and run—straight to the pool, restaurant or hotel room—without missing a minute of the action. The Baton Rouge-based company (formerly AirRover WiFi Corp.) has developed a handheld device, which enables users […]

Just a few weeks ago, Corriente Networks, a small, privately-held software developer in Berkeley, California, announced the release of its first product, Elektron, which was promptly named “Best of Show,” at MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. An auspicious debut for a company that employs only three people. Elektron is enterprise-grade server software, which is priced […]

When most Americans think of a player piano, they imagine an old upright version spinning its rolls and tinkling away in a dusty Western bar. But those pianos have about as much in common with today’s version as the Pony Express does with Federal Express. Yamaha recently introduced to the market the newest version of […]

As the saying goes, you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. In the world of Wi-Fi, hotspot providers are having trouble even getting their horses to water—if users can’t find hotspots, they can’t log on. San Francisco-based ISP system software developer Aramova (formerly Rockstar Software) has developed a new […]

While most of us imagine cell phones saving lives after an accident or during a storm, thanks to the work of a determined mother-daughter team and specialized wireless phone provider, SpectraLink, wireless phones are now saving lives in hospitals, too. The unlikely partnership between the California-based mother-daughter screenwriting team of Janet and Laura Greenwald and […]

As more and more cities jump into the emerging Wi-Fi as residential broadband market, a wide variety of business models are being tested. Starting early next year, the city of Lompoc, Calif., a city of 40,000 located just north of Santa Barbara on the state’s central coast, plans to join the growing number of American […]